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BALING PRESS.

No. 372,901. Patented Nov. 8, 1887.

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WILLIAM C. ELLIS, OF RISING SUN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM F. SMELLEY, OF SAME PLACE. I

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,901, dated November 8, 1887.

I Application filed July 7, 1887. Serial No. 243,622. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM OURTIs ELLIs, of Rising Sun, in the county of Ohio and State of Indiana,have invented a new and Improved Baling-Press, of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to baling-presses, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient machine of this character adapted for a wide range of work in pressing hay, straw, cotton, or other ma terial which may be baled by it with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of partsof the baling-press, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

, Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,-forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1' is a plan view of my improved baling-press. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, thereof with a sweep arranged below the press in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a vertical central longitudinal section ofthe press; and Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on theline mm, Fig. 3.

. The press-case A is made with a base or sill portion, a, which extends beneath the power mechanism, the plunger-beam B, and the baling-box and chamber 0, in which box the plunger D operates to press the bales, as pres through which the material to be baled is fed.

into the baling-box C, in front of the drawnback plunger, and the rear end of the case is formed as a door, E, which may be opened to discharge the bales after they have been tied bywires or bands introduced at the ordinary slots, 6, made in the sides of the case and in the plunger and the door; or they may be in spacing-blocks placed in the bale-chamber. v

Between the baling-box Oand the front portion of the press-case its upper and side walls are cut away to provide an opening or gangway, F, across which and approaches ff, leading to it, the animal hitched to the sweep Gmay travel as he walks around to apply the power for pressing the bales.

To the plunger-beam B are fixed a couple of blocks, H H, to which an upper plate, I, is fixed, thereby providing between the parts B I a space in which operate the main drivewheel J, to the shaft K of which the powersweep G is attached, and two anti-friction wheels, L L, against which the wheel J acts to move the plunger-beam and plunger backward and forward in the press-case. The shaft K is journaled in the top and bottom walls of the presscase, and the rollers L L are journaled in the parts B I and move with them, and these parts B I are slotted at b t, respectively,where the shaft K passes through them to allow movement of the plunger-beam and plunger by the wheel J, which is mounted eccentrically on its shaft K, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings. The opposing faces of the parts B I and the adjacent bottom and top walls of the press-case are provided withlongitudinally-rangingtongue-and-groove joints, as shown at M in Fig. '4, and whereby the entire plunger will be guided in its movements. It is obvious that as the sweep G is turned around in either direction the camwheel J will be rotated and the plunger-beam and plunger will be reciprocated in the case to press material fed into the baling-box. It will be noticed that the plunger and its beam are .connected directly with the power mechanism,whereby the power is applied with minimum friction and strain and by the use of but few parts, which insures maximum strength and durability of the entire machine. Furthermore, the simple construction allows the drive-wheel shaft K to be extended below the sill of the press-case and through the floor of a barn on which the press-case may rest, to allow the sweep G to be connected to the shaft in the cellar of the barn, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and whereby the animals working the press may walk in the cellar and entirely out of the way of the attendants of the press while operating the press to as great advantage as when traveling on the floor on which the press-case rests.

The press may be mounted on a wheeled truck of any approved construction, as will readily be understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. reciprocating beam B, extending from casing in said plate I and beam B, and the eccentric 10 wheel J, journaled in the case between plate I and beam B and acting on said anti-friction rollers, substantially as set forth.

\VILLIAM G. ELLIS.

A into chamber 0 below said gangway, and "Witnesses: carrying a follower, the blocks H H, tongued RODMAN L. DAVIS,

plate 1', the anti-friction rollers L L,jonrnaled DAVID C. THOBN. 

